02/04/2025
I know this is difficult for many people to understand because the truth has been whitewashed for generations in order to drive home a political agenda but the truth is still the truth and nothing can cover it forever.
Voting.
I’m not saying voting isn’t important or that you shouldn’t vote. Millions have suffered and some have died in order to get certain groups of people the right to vote.
But, as followers of the Way, we must understand that voting has nothing to do with the Messiyah’s message to us. When we are told the truth will set us free, it is not the truth of voting. In fact, in entire history of humankind, western democracies that allow all their people to vote is an infinitesimal fraction. The majority of people who have existed never had the right to vote, and probably never lived in a kingdom where the right to vote was an option.
So what does it mean to truly be free?
Freedom, for me, is the right to express myself. By Word. The ability to speak, to write, to call for justice when an injustice has been done, is freedom.
Are you free?
Do you merely go and vote and then checkout?
Do you have a voice and opinion you’re too scared to express?
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Think about it.
Voting is secret. You don’t tell anyone who you voted for, or you might tell a few trusted family and friends. But it’s secret. There’s no risk. No threat.
But if you speak up, everyone is going to know where you stand. Selah
If you speak truth to power, you’re going to upset some people. In fact, you might have family, friends and colleagues who suddenly treat you differently for voicing your opinions, your beliefs.
How many people have jobs where they have been told they can’t speak certain things or get involved in certain things even outside of work or it might be detrimental to their job?
Are you really free if you’re silenced by those conditions?
We are born in the image of the Creator. His Son was persecuted and died for speaking truth to power.
He wasn’t persecuted for voting.
He was persecuted for speaking truth to power.
As followers of the Way, we need to stop being afraid of the consequences for speaking truth to power. We need to be like Yahshua. We need to condemn unrighteousness and injustice and theft and inhumanity with our voices and with our pens. This is what the majority of people throughout history have done when faced with petty kings and ungodly tyrants. Don’t let them steal your voice by restricting it to a vote.
When a gangster is on trial, who do they want to intimidate and silence? Witnesses.
When government officials want to cheat, steal and destroy the system, who do they want to intimidate and silence?
Witnesses.
They don’t want you talking. They don’t want you spreading the truth.
I truly believe, as followers of the Way,?our only truth isn’t that the Son of Yahweh came, lived, died and rose again. We aren’t actual witnesses to that. We, by faith, believe it happened, but we’re not witnesses.
Today, however, you are witness to much. There is some good being done but there’s a lot of evil in high places as well. We are witnesses to many things.
Is the burden to heavy?
Can we shoulder the weight? The responsibility?
Or do we fear mankind and the consequences for speaking truth to power?
As a follower of the Way, I believe this life is short and the suffering short as well. I believe there’s an eternity of health and prosperity to be had. There’s also an eternity of suffering.
The Creator gave me a voice, a mind, a heart. He is amongst us in the people who are scared, and cold, and hungry, and homeless. As long as I have breath, I will speak to their cause, and condemn the unrighteous and injust who torment and afflict them with pain and debt.
They are not my enemy.
I will not war against them physically.
But I will heap coals on their heads by using what the Creator gave me to call them out.
My voice, my mind and my heart.
I vote every day with my voice, my mind, and my heart because I don’t belong to any kingdom on earth.
I am a stranger in a strange land.
I serve a universal King who embodies and rewards those who stand for truth, justice, compassion, mercy, kindness, charity and love.
No kingdom on earth can make that claim. And for my voice, mind and heart, none of them deserve my vote.
Selah